Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG native 32->64 concatenation

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

On Sunday 07 September 2008, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 9/7/08, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > The patch below adds a new concat_i32_i64 TCG op.  This allows a pair of
> >  32-bit values to be efficiently combined to form a 64-bit value.  I've
> >  converted all the cases I could find to use this, and tested the arm
> > code on both 32 and 64-bit hosts.
>
> Sparc's helper_pack64 does the same thing, I used it to reduce
> register pressure on i386 for 64 bit stores.

They're slightly different because helper_pack64 takes target_ulong arguments.
Replacing helper_pack64 with concat_i32_i64 would need explicit truncation on 
64-bit targets. The current TCG implementation will work if you use the wrong 
register type, however I don't want targets relying on that.

Paul